Rapid Deployment Logistics: Lebanon, 1958 (CSI Research Survey No. 3)

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers, quarto, xii/115pp, some b&w photos and maps. Light wear to card covers m(a little bit moreso to top edge of front cover); a very good copy. President Camille Chamoun of Lebanon made an urgent plea on 14 July 1958 to the governments of France, Great Britain, and the United States to deploy military forces to Lebanon. Received in Washington at 0600 on 14 July, this message became the first test of the Eisenhower Doctrine, which had been announced in January 1957. The JCS activated a Specified Command, Middle East (SPECOMME), and designated Adm. James L. Holloway, Commander in Chief, North Atlantic and Mediterranean, as the Commander in Chief, SPECOMME (CINCSPECOMME). According to a JCS memorandum, These actions marked the beginning of operation 'Blue Bat, ' the first United States airborne-amphibious operation to occur in peacetime.